Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : David Golden
Date : Sat Sep 17 2005 04:45 pm

Gerry Quinn wrote:

> As with other property rights.

Nope. _I_ don't start out with the assumption any property right is
valid.  

However, real physical property rights are somewhat justifiable: scarce
resources can be "used up" and are rivalrous.

Information is used without consumption, copied without being taken.

With information, there is no need to devise a a property system to
apportion a scarce resource, whether a capitalist or communist property
system (your apparent failure to grasp that communism is a property
system also notwithstanding). The resource is not rivalrous in the
first place.

You merely seek to *create* artificial scarcity to control others.

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